The Solidarities of Strangers : The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700–1948 (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Residualism Taken for Granted, 1700?1834: 1. The welfare process under the old poor laws; 2. Weekly doles: communal support in the eighteenth century; 3. Excluding paupers, 1780?1834; Part II. Residualism Refined and Restricted, 1834?60; 4. Classifying and confining paupers, 1834?60; 5. 'Though poor, I'm a gentleman still'; 6. 'Pauperism' in practice, 1834?70; Part III. Residualism Re-evaluated and Rejected, 1860?1948; 7. Re-evaluating the urban poor, 1860?90; 8. The multicampaign war on pauperism, 1870?1906; 9. Popular rejection of the poor laws; 10. New principles for social action, 1906?48; Epilogue: residualism redux, 1948?95; Appendix: collection and analysis of settlement examinations; Bibliographic essay; Index.